Christ and Pop Culture
" What is this newfangled thing of which you speak?! Marriage?" Read more
" What is this newfangled thing of which you speak?! Marriage?" Read more
"It’s telling how much these games recognize the power of fatherly love and the sacrificial acts fathers will make to defend their families." Read more
". . . mixed with that fragility is a gracefulness that speaks to the eloquence of a Creator whose handiwork implores us to look around and marvel like artists, scientists, and little children." Read more
Mixed Signals is Erin Straza’s musing about marketing miscellany in advertising, branding, and messaging. Some days are so full of trouble and mishap, they leave us breathless and downcast in its wake. We wish we had gotten a hint of what was ahead so we could have been prepared for the onslaught. A campaign for Florida Orange Juice plays up this common human desire in its campaign series titled “Take on the Day.” The TV spots show a main character... Read more
Justin Welby, The next leader of the Church of England has a strange resume. Having only been a bishop in the church for about a year, he will now become the head of Anglicanism. Some might see this as reeking with privilege, and it is certainly odd that a man with much commercial influence and little time in ministry. However, I am not ready to dismiss the Archbishop of Canterbury quite yet, his background could possibly work in his favor:... Read more
Kiel Hauck explains how a metal band redefined a genre, confronted spirituality with masterful artistry, and changed his life forever. Read more
Good news! If you are in debt or overweight, you can now blame your friends. A recent article at Mashable, “Your Facebook Friends Are Making You Fat,” reports that we get more than we bargain for from scrolling our news feeds: According to a study by researchers at Columbia Business School and University of Pittsburgh, that will be published in the Journal of Consumer Research in June 2013, keeping watch of your good friends’ activities on social media correlates to... Read more
The following are actual search terms people typed into Google (Yahoo?) which directed them to CaPC. In most cases they didn’t find the answer they were looking for on our site. FSQ is an attempt to remedy this problem by answering some of the most (de)pressing questions sent to us through search terms. This week’s theme is the Dangers of Technology. Q 1. “Making secular music into Christian songs” …is a horrible idea stop now. Q 2. “Www.how can someone become... Read more
Each week in The Moviegoer, Nick Olson examines new and upcoming films. There’s a fun scene in the latter half of Wreck-it Ralph in which brutish “bad guy” Ralph is helping his little glitching, pixeled companion, Venellope von Schweetz, build a go-kart made of candy. The scene encapsulates the film’s brimming possibilities. The arcade characters build the kart within the structure and mechanism of the kart-racing game, Sugar Rush. Which is to say, in part, that they build the candy kart... Read more
"Olson's article ought to give us pause to reflect on how we often think about such a resurrection, and the immortality promised us in Christ." Read more
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